This morning, MTS passengers in the
South Bay and East County should plan for
service disruptions to some bus services.
That's because drivers contracted by
a third party group are on strike.
Thanks for being here at 6:00 AM,
everyone. I'm Eric Connors.
And I'm net Iran poor. Yeah,
many of them up early picketing right now.
CBS8's Chris Grow live in Chula
Vista now to explain how this
will impact your morning commute.
And you see that line of people behind you.
Chris. Good morning.
Yeah. Good morning, Eric, Annette.
And let's take a live look here
at that picket line you can see
right here in front of the MTS
station here in the South Bay.
Many of them adjourned in their
yellow and highlight vests.
You can see them right there,
right in front of the entrance
and exit of the MTS station here.
Now these are workers again,
the drivers that are either with
First Transit or Trans Dev and
both operate as a third party.
4 bus bus operators I should say
in the South Bay and East county
Now this strike is going to impact
bus routes as well as paratransit
riders and a limited number of fixed
route services that use mini buses.
And the drivers are on the picket line.
They're pushing for better wages
and working conditions.
From Trans Devon,
First Transit Now MTS has outlined
how many routes and which ones
are expected to be impacted.
In fact, they tweeted quote.
Police plan for major service disruptions
to bus service effective immediately.
Expect limited to no service on routes
operating out of our South Bay bus
division due to a work stoppage.
In fact,
the union Rep told us yesterday that
the strike could last as long as 20 days.
But back out here live this picket strike,
the picket line going
strong as the strike continues,
in fact at one point.
We heard a union Rep asking
them for bodies to go down to
the OTAI station as well too.
So again they are making their voices heard.
It is important to point out that
MTS does not have any type of
decision making within this process.
Again this is between the workers
and their third party employers,
that being either First Transit or Trans Dev.
But For more information on those
routes it could be impacted.
You can go to cbs8.com and click
on that story link Eric and Netta.
Well, this morning,
teachers and staff at San Diego
Unified demanding a living wage
and better work conditions.
You see hundreds of them protesting
outside district headquarters.
This video is from yesterday.
They've been working without a new
contract since June of last year,
and while negotiations are ongoing,
they're threatening to declare an impasse.
If an agreement is not reached by
the end of this month, we don't
want to vote a strike. But if I have to,
I did it before I can do it again.
So now you see part of a statement
the district it gave it to us.
They say they continue to work with
the union on a contract that quote,
honors the work of our teachers
and staff and recognizes their
dedication to educate and support
students and help them recover
from the effects of the pandemic.
This morning, some parents are upset over
discipline policies at San Diego Unified.
They brought their concerns to the school
board for the second time last night.
Parents are saying the restorative
discipline policy allows students to
behave badly without consequences.
The policy relies on counseling or
mediation before suspension or expulsion.
So one parent says the child in
his son's class has continued to
assault and threaten other students.
Bringing a gun to school,
A fully loaded BB gun that resembles A Glock.
And I actually have one to show.
Taking a pencil sharpener apart.
Taking the blade.
Threatening to cut kids. So
we asked the school district if they're
going to make any changes to this policy.
They only told us they're continuously
looking into their procedures.
This morning, we still don't
know the cause of an explosion
at a Tijuana apartment building
just three miles from the border.
It happened yesterday morning,
leaving 28 people injured,
four of them seriously injured.
Right now, crews have blocked off the area.
They're monitoring the entire block
in case of a gas leak or anything
else that could trigger another blow.
Civil Protection officials say
another kind of explosion happened
at the building a few years ago,
and the apartments on top were
not supposed to be livable.
And now, new this morning,
Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes may
finally have to leave a beachfront property
here in Delmar and report to prison.
So a court just rejected her latest
effort to overturn her conviction.
Holmes scammed investors and the government
not of hundreds of millions of dollars,
with her blood testing startup.
Well, she's been delaying the
start of her 11 year sentence.
And has been staying here in San Diego,
specifically that Delmar beachfront home.
A judge will now set a date
for her to go to prison.
And now this morning,
the president and congressional
leaders honing in on a possible
agreement on the debt limit.
This includes taking back some
unspent federal COVID relief money,
then adding stricter work requirements
to social safety net programs.
Vivid agreement is not reached in 15 days.
The country could default on its debt,
so June 1st is that deadline.
The Treasury Secretary saying it
could be a financial catastrophe
the likes of the Great Recession.
But in a cable news interview this morning,
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy was
optimistic that the US will not default.
Well this morning soccer fans have
mixed reactions to the possibility
of an MLS team in San Diego.
Yet Major League Soccer coming here tomorrow.
The commissioner of Major League Soccer
will be holding a press conference
event at Snapdragon Stadium to make a
quote significant announcement about
the future of soccer in San Diego.
Egyptian billionaire Mohammed
Mansour will be there as well.
He's expected to be the investment partner
and owner alongside the Syquan Tribe.
If they confirm a team in San Diego,
we would be home to the 30th club in
the MLS and will begin play in 2025.
So fans are wondering what's going to happen
to the loyal if and when an MLS team arrives.
In a recent statement,
the loyal said quote we have become
aware of an independent ownership
group that intends to launch
their own club in San Diego.
Our unwavering commitment is to the
vision of growing soccer in this city.
They go on to say, quote, Our plan is simple.
We aren't going anywhere.
So here is what some of our viewers
are saying on our Facebook page.
Some of the comments we've been getting
in Jericho says we ready in San Diego and
as mayor, I approve of this, Adolfo writes.
Finally they say something good.
They took Chargers away.
Hopefully we get a good soccer
team here in San Diego.
Time for a change, Diane says.
We don't really care.
We let the Chargers go.
Not getting attached to another team.
Still hurt from the Chargers debacle.
Should we talk about Diane's
commitment issues or are we
just going to? I want to get
burned against frustrations again.
We obviously don't know what
the announcement will be,
but we have some people inferring
what that's going to mean exactly.
And for those players who get to play on
a San Diego team,
lucky that I
think the more more pro sports
we have in. Diego the better.
I agree, because maybe a football
and a hockey team and lacrosse
dragon is brand new. It's beautiful.
What a great place to enjoy all those sports.
So gonna be cool.
Let's take a look at your forecast
for your Wednesday morning.
Starting off the week with cloud cover.
And in some cases those clouds
are pretty low down to the ground.
Take a look at a fog we're
running into in Ramona.
We're at less than 1/4 mile of
visibility along the coastline.
We're doing all right 5 miles
in Miramar and Kearney Mesa,
6 miles of visibility.
In Carlsbad,
we're up to half a mile and fall,
Brooks so, so running into some trouble,
especially off toward our valley floors.
What we're going to see by the
afternoon is that those clouds are
going to pull back and weaken.
We'll still run into quite a bit of haze
along the coast and passing clouds.
And because of that dense cloud cover
lingering through the afternoon,
we probably will still stick
with mid 60s as opposed to warmer
than average temperatures.
So cooler than average for the coast,
but warmer than average for
your inland valleys,
for your mountains and your deserts.
We have a whole nother issue
to contend with though,
starting from today all the
way through the weekend,
and that's going to be higher humidity.
So you'll feel a bit of mugginess out there,
especially inland and across the mountains.
Across the mountains that will
translate to the chance of a
few thunderstorms developing.
So right now walking out the
door mainly in the Fifties,
59 degrees in Oceanside,
58 in Del Mar, 54 in Ramona.
But as the mountains warm up
later on this afternoon and we
see instability start to climb,
it can draw on that moisture that
easterly flow right monsoonal
moisture as we call it.
And that moisture is going to allowed
for allow for cloud development.
And that chance of a few straight
showers and maybe even thunderstorms,
That chance for showers remains elevated
all the way through about Sunday,
maybe even Monday.
And then we'll start to see things
dwindle a bit as onshore flow prevails.
But the setup right now is consistent
with the possibility about 5 to 10,
maybe 20% chance.
Of a few stray showers making their way
across the mountaintops exclusively.
It's 609 right now.
Now for traffic,
here's a look at the border wait
times from the CDP website.
It is a 160 minute wait for the
general line at the San Ysidro
Port of Entry and an 80 minute
wait for the general line at Theo
time Mesa Port of Entry.
You can head to our website cbs8.com/traffic.
It'll let you know what those road
conditions look like here across our county.
Back to you.